After the New Year, it was the time for the fu to come and go. As the Empress of the Middle Palace, Qu Qing Ju naturally received many invitations from the noblewomen. But because she was pregnant now, she only saw the Empress Dowager's paternal family, Tian Luo shi and the others. Today, the ones she needed to see were Ning Wang Fei and Cheng Wang Fei. After that, she would be free.
"Ning Wang Fei, Cheng Wang Fei, please come in," Huang Yang hurriedly walked out of the rear hall, his face full of smiles as he bowed to Wei Qing E and Luo Wen Yao. He then bowed to usher the two in.
"Thank you gonggong," Luo Wen Yao politely smiled at Huang Yang. She knew that Huang Yang was someone the Empress could use so she was very courteous to him.
"Cheng Wang Fei is too polite, please." Huang Yang's attitude was even more humble as he slowly walked inside, "The Empress knew that the two wang fei were coming so she had been waiting since early."
Wei Qing E followed Huang Yang and said a few words of gratitude. When they reached the door of the main room, she didn't speak again. Huang Yang called out: "Empress, Ning Wang Fei and Cheng Wang Fei have arrived."
"Quick, please," Wei Qing E heard Qu Qing Ju's voice coming from inside. The curtain in front of them was pushed open. A palace maid with a familiar face came out and bowed to them before ushering the two into the main room.
This was the first time Wei Qing E had come to this place. She could see at a glance that the decorations in the room were very exquisite and there weren't any sharp objects. She must have been worried that those things would hurt the pregnant Qu Qing Ju.
She looked at Qu Qing Ju who was sitting at the front. Qu Qing Ju had combed her hair into a simple bun, with a buyao stuck in the side of her temple. Paired with the black strands of hair, it gave her a languid beauty.
"Greetings to Empress," Wei Qing E and Luo Wen Yao bowed in unison, their actions full of respect.
"Between us sisters-in-law, there's no need to be so courteous," Qu Qing Ju waved a hand for a palace maid to bring over carved round stools for the two. After giving them a seat, she said: "It's snowing today, thank you for the trouble of coming to see ben gong."
"Niangniang's words are flattering chen wife," Wei Qing E smiled as she said, "chen wife should have gone into the palace long ago to give thanks. It's just that matters have been busy these past few days and delayed. Luckily niangniang is generous and didn't blame chen wife. If the Empress continues to speak like this, this subject doesn't know what to do. "
"Da sao, you're treating me like an outsider," Qu Qing Ju saw that Wei Qing E's attire was even more dignified than before, but she seemed slightly older. She sighed inside. There weren't a few women in Ning Wang Fu. Luckily, Wei Qing E had a di son of her own. Otherwise, she would have to spend more effort. "Ning Wang Fu has been empty for so many days, naturally it needs to be cleaned up. Ben gong should have sent people to clean up the mess, but His Majesty was constantly thinking about Da Bo, so he summoned you all back to the capital early on. It's been hard on your family. "
"It is our family's fortune that His Majesty is thinking about our wang ye," Wei Qing E smiled as she responded, "Wang ye often talks about how good His Majesty is. He even says that even if he died ten thousand times, he wouldn't be able to repay His Majesty's kindness."
Thinking back to when Wei Qing E hadn't been like Qin Bai Lu who made things difficult for her at every turn, but she still had the air of an elder sao. Now, her words and actions were praising her, this er xixi. Qu Qing Ju saw that there wasn't any unwillingness in her actions and couldn't help but feel that Ning Wang was too heartless. Such a virtuous wife, and she didn't leave him. But when he came back to Jing, he took in a few beauties as tongfang. Did he ever think about Wei Qing E at all?
"We're all brothers, there's no need to talk about kindness," Qu Qing Ju waved her hand and said to Luo Wen Yao: "Ben gong heard that you had good news these past two days. This is really something to celebrate. Why didn't you let someone come in to tell ben gong?"
Luo Wen Yao's face instantly flushed. She lowered her head as she replied: "It was diagnosed by the taiyi the day before yesterday. Chen ru had wanted to tell you after a few days."
"You can't hide such a good thing from ben gong," Qu Qing Ju smiled, "Ben gong got someone to prepare some things that pregnant women often use. Take them back with you. If there's anything you lack, send someone to tell ben gong. Don't make things difficult for yourself."
Wei Qing E listened to the conversation between the Empress and Cheng Wang Fei. She could feel the closeness the Empress had to Cheng Wang Fei. This was very different from the politeness and distance the Empress had with her. Thinking about it, her emotions were slightly complicated. A year ago, who would have thought that even Cheng Wang would have a time where he would have a comeback.
"Speaking of which, ben gong heard yesterday that Rui Junwang Fei was sick. Did you two hear?" Three days ago, she had attended the year banquet in the palace and fell sick when she got back. If this got out, was it because her body was weak, or was it because the new Emperor and Empress had neglected her?
"San dimei's body has always been weak. Last night, it snowed all night. She must have gotten sick because she wasn't paying attention," Wei Qing E followed up. She more or less understood the Empress's meaning and naturally followed along, "It's just that san dimei usually doesn't interact much with chen fu and si dimei so we don't know."
Qu Qing Ju nodded, looking deeply moved: "That's true. San dimei's personality has always been proud. Even ben gong isn't willing to interact with her. Later, ben gong will get someone to bestow some things to her. It can be counted as ben gong's goodwill."
The words sounded like they were concerned for Qin Bai Lu, but the hidden meaning was that Qin Bai Lu had been disrespectful to the Empress. Wei Qing E scanned the room. There were many palace maids and taijian of various sizes standing here. If these words got out, wouldn't everyone know Qin Bai Lu's arrogance?
She slightly lowered her face, not looking at the warm smile on Qu Qing Ju's face. Her tone was in agreement as she said: "The Empress is benevolent and kind. Rui Junwang Fei's actions are slightly disrespectful."
Wasn't it benevolent and kind? Even if a junwang fei was disrespectful to her, she would let bygones be bygones and bestow things down. Who in the court didn't praise her for being virtuous?
"We are all one family. You and I both know her personality," Qu Qing Ju showed a helpless expression, "Ben gong just hopes that her illness will quickly recover."
Luo Wen Yao used a handkerchief to cover the corner of her mouth as she agreed: "Empress is right. San sao's recovery is the best thing."
Wei Qing E strangely felt that the Empress and Cheng Wang Fei were close because of some strange similarity?
"Emperor?" Ming He saw the Emperor walk to the door to the rear hall and then turn to walk back to the front hall. He couldn't help but ask carefully, "Should nucai go and report to the Empress?" When the Empress was entertaining guests, there was no reason for the Emperor to leave. Shouldn't it be other people? The Emperor was too fond of the Empress.
"No need," He Heng waved his hand. He took down a book from the shelf and buried his head to read. Ming He glanced. It was the same book that the Emperor had been reading for a few days. Ever since the Empress had been diagnosed with pregnancy, the Emperor seemed to have become interested in all kinds of medical books.
After an unknown amount of time, just as Ming He thought that the Emperor would keep reading, a servant of the Empress came to ask if the Emperor was going to eat the noon meal together. Then he saw the Emperor throw down the book and stand.
He looked at the medical books that the Emperor had heartlessly thrown to one side. No matter what they were, in front of the Empress, they couldn't even compare to a strand of hair.
In Rui Jun Wang Fu, Qin Bai Lu was so angry that she smashed all the things that the palace had bestowed before she felt the anger in her heart dissipate slightly. She looked hatefully at the ginseng and angelica scattered on the ground and sneered: "Why is she pretending to be virtuous in front of me. Does it mean that I don't have these things and want these things?"
She had once hated Qu Yue Su the most. When Qu Yue Su was gone, the one she hated the most became Qu Qing Ju. It was as though the two sisters of the Qu Family were born to oppose her and made her unable to have peace every day.
"Wang fei, you've pretended to be sick these days and didn't go visit the Empress. Wang ye is already unhappy. Now you even smashed the things that the Empress bestowed. If wang ye knew, it wouldn't be good," Ru Hua hurriedly had the servants clean up the room. After the servants all left, she comforted, "Right now, even if it's for yourself, you have to endure."
"Endure?" Qin Bai Lu pointed in the direction of the main yard, "He spends all his time in the yard drinking and making merry. When has he ever thought of me? Even if I tear down this room, he probably wouldn't even look!"
"But if you continue to make trouble like this … …"
"You don't have to persuade me. In wang ye's eyes, even a finger of the Empress is better than me. Maybe right now, he regrets not marrying the Empress and marrying me instead!" Qin Bai Lu was so angry she didn't choose her words, "The Empress is so noble, so beautiful, what am I!"
Ru Hua sighed helplessly. She thought of the rumors outside about wang fei. Things like being jealous and unvirtuous, arrogant and rude, disrespectful to the Empress. There were even people that said wang ye would divorce wang fei. If wang fei knew of these things, she didn't know how sad she would be.
She didn't understand. What kind of irreconcilable hatred did the Empress and wang fei have for wang fei to hate the Empress so much. The two of them clearly hadn't interacted much. Was it really because of that rumor about the bestowal of marriage? But the relationship between the Empress and the Emperor was very good. There was no need for wang fei to be jealous of the Empress.
Outside the room, He Fu Er stood behind He Yuan, his legs trembling in fear. He really hadn't thought that wang fei would say such a daring thing. If this matter reached the Emperor's ears, wouldn't it take wang ye's life?
Thinking of the rumors in Jing about the Emperor and Empress' deep love, He Fu Er swallowed. It really was terrible. Why was he so unlucky to hear such brainless words?
Carefully looking at wang ye's expression, He Fu Er's legs became even weaker. It had been a long time since he had seen wang ye's expression so ugly. Hearing wang fei still complaining in the room, he finally couldn't stand it and knelt down with a bang.
He Yuan didn't look at He Fu Er beside him. With a dark expression, he kicked open the door. Looking at Qin Bai Lu who had suddenly frozen, he coldly ordered: "He Fu Er, bring a pen and paper."
Qin Bai Lu was shocked. She knew what wang ye wanted to do. This was the result she didn't want the most.
"Wang ye!" Qin Bai Lu shrieked, "I am the wang fei that xiandi bestowed upon you, you can't divorce me."
"So you also know that these words will make ben wang divorce you, then why can't you control your mouth?" He Yuan looked with disgust at Qin Bai Lu, "Even if ben wang is just a junwang, ben wang won't tolerate a woman like you." No matter how poor he was, he was still a member of the Imperial Family. He didn't need to endure the anger of a woman like this.
"Bring a pen and paper!" He Yuan's voice became harsher. It was clear that he was impatient from waiting.
Very quickly, someone brought the pen and paper, grinding and laying the paper. All of this was done in the blink of an eye in Qin Bai Lu's eyes.
"Wang ye," Qin Bai Lu knelt down. She knew that He Yuan was serious this time. She couldn't resist hugging his leg, crying bitterly: "You can't do this to me."
"Pull her away!" He Yuan didn't even look at Qin Bai Lu. Dipping the pen in ink, he started to write smoothly.
"Wang ye, wang ye," Ru Hua knelt by He Yuan's feet, "Wang fei didn't mean it. Please forgive her this time, wang ye."
The two little taijian saw that wang ye's face was becoming uglier and they went forward to drag Ru Hua to the side.
Ru Hua watched in a daze as wang ye wrote the divorce letter in one go. It was like the emotions she had suppressed for a long time had finally been released. She suddenly couldn't beg for mercy because she suddenly felt that no matter how much she and wang fei begged, wang ye wouldn't change his mind.
"Take it," He Yuan threw the still-wet divorce letter in front of Qin Bai Lu. He looked coldly at her kneeling on the ground, "The thing ben wang regrets the most in this life is marrying you."
Qin Bai Lu's mind buzzed as if she couldn't hear anything. She stared blankly at the man looking down at her from above. She had never felt more heartbroken than at this moment. She suddenly stood up and pushed He Yuan away. Just as she was about to slam into the wall, He Fu'er pulled her back.
"If you want to die, go back to your Qin Family and die. Don't dirty ben wang's place," He Yuan smiled coldly, "Come, take all of Qin shi's things and send them back to the Qin Family with Qin shi."
"Yes," He Fu Er saw that the situation had reached such a state and didn't dare to anger wang ye. He could only lead the people to clean up.
He Yuan didn't look at Qin Bai Lu again, turning to leave with a wave of his sleeve.
The news that Qin Family's daughter had been divorced by Rui Jun Wang spread through the entire Jing City in the afternoon. Almost no one dared to believe that Rui Jun Wang would do such a thing. It had to be said that Rui Jun Wang didn't have any real power now. If he fell out with the Qin Family, wouldn't his future days be even harder?
There were also people who felt that Qin Family's daughter wasn't good enough to be a wang fei. They also sighed at Rui Jun Wang's unwillingness to mistreat himself.
The next morning, at court, there was an Imperial Censor who accused Rui Jun Wang of divorcing his wife. The main idea was that Qin Family's daughter had been bestowed by xiandi. Rui Jun Wang's action of divorcing Qin Family's daughter was unfilial to xiandi and corrupted the morals of Da Long Dynasty. He also praised the Emperor's love for the Empress to set off Rui Jun Wang's heartlessness and unfilial nature.
"The Empress is virtuous in her conduct, filial to her elders, considerate to zhen. It is normal for zhen to love her more," The flattery landed on the back of his foot. He Heng said with a dark face, "Qin shi's daughter's conduct is improper, her words and actions arrogant. She has no virtue. She is even arrogant and rude in front of zhen and the Empress. Rui Jun Wang is zhen's own didi. How can zhen bear for him to have a wang fei like this to serve him? "
The Imperial Censor choked. Qin shi's bad reputation had already spread through Jing City. It really wasn't appropriate for him to compare Qin shi to the Empress. He instantly knelt down, unable to speak.
"Zhen thinks, as a man, he should be filial to his elders, respect his di wife, love his youngest son. And as a woman, she should have proper conduct, respect her husband, be virtuous and intelligent. Only this way, can a husband and wife be harmonious. " He Heng frowned, "Zhen heard that the Grand Scholar of Hong Yuan Pavilion, Lu daren, has a good daughter, both beautiful and talented. Zhen can be the matchmaker and have Lu xiaojie marry zhen's san di. The marriage will be completed this winter."
Lu Jing Hong stilled and then squeezed out a smile as he knelt down, replying: "This subject thanks the Emperor for bestowing marriage."
The Emperor was cutting off the Qin Family's path of retreat and even pulled his daughter into this. But he couldn't refuse.
He only hoped that Rui Jun Wang would treat his daughter better in the future and not end up like he did with Qin shi. Then he would thank the heavens.
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
